Billions of people will watch the World Cup in Qatar, fixated on one of the world's premier sporting festivals. But football's governing body FIFA has also unleashed a political tempest, highlighting moral, business and geopolitical dilemmas shaping the modern world.

In the years before the 2008 crash, technocrats ensured political debate was relegated to the sidelines. Today, politics is everywhere – but it hasn't returned in the way many might have hoped.

Sam Knight reports from Qatar; David Remnick talks with Politico's owner, Mathias Döpfner; and a poet translates the DeafBlind experience to the page.

For better and for worse.

Iran's new membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is another step toward the post-West world order.

Shall we do climate change the hard way, or the harder way?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has covertly spent more than $300 million since 2014 to try to influence politicians and other officials in more than two dozen countries, the State Department alleges in a newly released cable.

Russia has covertly spent more than $300 million since 2014 to try to influence politicians and other officials in more than two dozen countries, the State Department alleges in a newly released cable.

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America will again occupy the globe's center stage with the upcoming presidential election. In this case, however, the campaign will be a certain embarrassment and possible tragedy. American pol

The first ten days were soccer as it is, rather than as you want it to be, Sam Knight writes.

The veteran actor, who became TV's first Black superhero 30 years ago in 'M.A.N.T.I.S.,' discusses the hope he draws from the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It's hard to overstate just how shocking, how grotesque and shaming, was President Trump's outburst against Ukraine's President Zelensky in the Oval Office. Pop went the la

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What can post-Cold War Iraqi foreign policy teach us about the current world order? Samuel Helfont joins Ronald J. Granieri in this month's People, Politics,

Elon Musk has developed breakthrough tech companies and made himself a figure in global politics. Could his erratic behavior undermine those successes?

Former President Donald Trump flubs while attacking President Joe Biden on the campaign trail. New York Times political correspondent Michael Bender joins CNN's Kasie Hunt to discuss.

The American and Iranian soccer teams are the only ones putting politics aside as the sides meet in a match to determine if either nation continues in this World Cup.

An increasing number of voices are urging people to refocus on the hyperlocal when national events feel too overwhelming.